Five arrested in alleged test-taking scam

chipmunk

August 21, 2003


NEW YORK (AP) _ Five graduate school students have been accused of paying other people to take standardized tests for them in the hopes of getting higher scores, authorities said.

The students, who were arrested on charges of forgery and criminal impersonation, were admitted to schools including New York University's Stern School of Business and the MBA program at Baruch College.

Authorities said they responded to ads in a Chinese-language newspaper offering tutoring for the tests but then paid $2,500 each or more to have someone else take the TOEFL, GRE and GMAT exams in their places.

The adds were allegedly placed by Ping Shen, 47, of Queens, who was arrested last month, authorities said.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office said Shen gave stand-ins fake passports to pose as the students. Another man, Lu Xu, of Manhattan, is accused of taking 150 tests.

Officials said the investigation into the scheme is ongoing.

siebel

$2,500

这么便宜？

funnytiger

that is US dollar, I believe

yeah, today Haas dean asked every instructor to talk about ethics in the class. this might be the reason.

the worst part of this story is: again and again, there are chinese involved

valentine

I hate "Hai Qun ZHi Ma"!!!!


V.

chipmunk

以下是引用lanlan000在2003-8-22 14:22:00的发言：

however, 如果这个马群有特别多的害群之马，马群里其他的马是不是要反省一下有什么可以做的？

Kick their asses.